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2:54 PM,
Jan. 28, 2014

Editors taste-tested a variety of baked potato chips.

Written by

Nina Rizzo
@NinaRizzo1

America's favorite snack food has stepped out of the frying pan and into the oven.

Snack food makers have created dozens of varieties of baked potato chips, with less fat and fewer calories than traditional chips fried in oil. But how do they stack up in terms of texture, flavor and crunch?

A group of taste testers at the newspaper eagerly sampled 11 supermarket offerings to determine whether there are any baked chips that come close to the crispy crunchiness of regular deep-fried potato chips. The samples included plain, sea salt, barbecue and cheddar/roasted tomato. ...